paragraph 10 in volume 1, chapter 2, The Establishment and Constitution of the Court
Running through all these discussions was the unresolved political issue of whether to adapt the Permanent Court to the new conditions, or to wind it up and establish a new Court in its place. Paragraph 3 of the report of the Informal Inter-Allied Committee, the first published official document to draw attention to the issue, adopted no position on it, though its tenor is favourable to the retention of the P…